Am 31.01.2010 01:40, schrieb James Rayner: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:34 +1100, "James Rayner" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> new netcfg in [testing] ready for signoff. >> >> >> Also, news item for the release follows below: >> >> netcfg v2.5.1 >> >> This release brings a completely new auto wireless/wired configuration. >> The old net-auto is deprecated and no longer included. There are also >> some very minor configuration changes that may affect a few people. >> >> Move to new auto-wireless/wired >> The new automatic connection has proper roaming support and will prove >> more reliable than the old setup - particularly with more complicated >> wireless configurations. >> To migrate to the new automatic wireless setup: >> 1. pacman -S testing/wpa_actiond >> 2. Set WIRELESS_INTERFACE="" to your wireless interface in /etc/rc.conf. >> For example WIRELESS_INTERFACE="wlan0" >> 3. Add net-auto-wireless to your DAEMONS=() array. >> >> Note: wpa-config profiles do not work with this, convert them to >> wpa-configsection profiles. An example is included in >> /etc/network.d/examples/ >> >> The new auto-wired uses similar configuration - follow the above >> instructions except use the net-auto-wired daemon, and WIRED_INTERFACE >> configuration option. >> >> New features: >> - net-auto-wireless/wpa_actiond - Real wireless roaming/auto connection. >> Based on same principle as autowifi. Requires optional dependency: >> wpa_actiond >> - net-auto-wired - automatic ethernet configuration. Requires optional >> dependency: ifplugd >> - Interface configurations - set options for all profiles using an >> interface >> - Output hooks >> - Internal cleanup & improvement >> >> Internal changes: >> - Uses wpa_supplicant for all wireless configuration by default, >> including wep/none security. This adds improves support for most and >> should improve reliability. >> - Uses iproute by default for all static configuration. net_tools >> which contains ifconfig is effectively obsolete and hasnt seen a >> release for over 8 years. The 'ethernet-iproute' and 'ethernet' >> connection types have been merged together to simply 'ethernet'. All >> options are still supported and existing configurations will continue >> to work for both types. A symlink has been made to ensure that >> profiles using 'ethernet-iproute' will continue to function. >> >> Changes in configuration syntax >> - net-auto and AUTO_NETWORKS is now deprecated in favour of >> net-auto-wireless/net-auto-wired. >> - wireless: If you were previously specifying the wpa_supplicant driver >> in WPA_OPTS, you now need to specify it in WPA_DRIVER. >> - wireless: iwconfig based configuration for wep/none can be used by >> changing to wep-old or none-old. This should not be necessary and is >> left in place only for the possibility of very old drivers that do not >> support wpa_supplicant. >> - ethernet-iproute: As 'ethernet' is now iproute based, those using >> 'ethernet-iproute' can revert the name. There is a symlink in place, so >> existing configurations of either name will continue to function >> regardless. >> - wireless-dbus: Unsupported. The wpa_supplicant dbus interface isn't >> particularly well documented and it doesn't fit well into the netcfg >> codebase. There is a symlink in place so that configurations using >> wireless-dbus will continue to function using the 'wireless' connection >> scripts. >> >> Download: >> netcfg 2.5.1 is in [core]. >> Source: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/netcfg/netcfg-2.5.1.tar.gz >> PKGBUILD: In subversion >> >> Documentation: >> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles >> >> Contributors: >> I had a few big contributors to this release: >> Jim Pryor: Many internal changes and improvements >> Thomas Bächler: wpa_actiond based auto roaming/connection >> Thanks guys! >> >> Bugs: >> On the bug tracker as always. > > Oops, sent to arch-dev. >
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